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Sorry I’m so behind. I bought a house, and we just took possession of it yesterday (Don’t worry, I’ll post some pictures of it after the renos are done.)
In any case, I spotted this article about the recent legalization of same sex marriages in Iowa . Personally, I’m not really for or against “gay marriage”, but more for “personal freedom”. If gays want to marry, who the heck are we to tell them no? I sure as heck wouldn’t have wanted anyone to tell me that Alicia and I couldn’t tie the knot. I mean honestly, if Rob and Bob down the street decide to get married, how can it possibly affect you? What doesn’t affect me doesn’t concern me.
In any case, I think Iowa’s governor said it right. Most reasoned broaching of the subject that I’ve see in a long time.
Just noticed in the admin section that readers have commented on Every Day Fiction stories 11,111 times. That alone is one of the best metrics of how a community has sprung up around our little magazine.
Thanks guys! You make it all worthwhile!
I found this open letter printed in the Georgia Straight, a local left wing free paper here in Vancouver, a couple of weeks ago. Now, don’t get me wrong, even though politically, I’m pretty conservative, I love the Straight for the voice it gives to those who aren’t usually heard.
That said, sometimes there’s a reason those voices aren’t heard. From the article:
We would also recommend that you ask staff to consider if potential penalties involved with Vancouver withdrawing from hosting the 2010 Games outweigh the looming costs to the City for security and other Olympic costs.
This is marginal thinking at best. Pull out of the games? Are you nuts? Imagine the lawsuits from every business owner who decided to move to Vancouver, from every condo owner who bought here, from all the investors in the various Olympic venues, not to mention the costs of all the infrastructure projects begun here in the last four years.
Publishing an open letter by nut cases like this damages the reputation of the Georgia Straight and marginalizes voices that might have genuine, well-thought out issues about the Games (whatever they might be). Most frighteningly, there appears to be some people with medium-sized reputations who signed that letter. Come on, people, try reading what you signed!
Found this article on the net. Talk about fiction becoming fact. We’re about ten seconds away from the world of “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale“.
From the article:
Suppose scientists could erase certain memories by tinkering with a single substance in the brain. Could make you forget a chronic fear, a traumatic loss, even a bad habit.
Researchers in Brooklyn have recently accomplished comparable feats, with a single dose of an experimental drug delivered to areas of the brain critical for holding specific types of memory, like emotional associations, spatial knowledge or motor skills.
So here’s a quick challenge for you: Create a flash fiction story revolving around memory loss and sub it to EDF. We never seem to get enough science fiction.